Bede, on Lev 26:10

“You shall eat the oldest of the old store, and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.”

“And we eat the oldest of the old [grain] when we retain in our hearts the sweet memory of the old commandment which was given to the human race from the beginning, by loving the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul and all our strength, and by loving our neighbor as ourselves. And we cast away the old [to make room] for the new that is coming on when we cease to keep the typic statutes of the Mosaic law according to the letter but keep these same statutes quite gladly as they are understood through the Spirit. Our hearts [are] being renewed in the hope of the heavenly kingdom in accordance with that [saying] of the apostle: "If then anyone is in Christ a new creature, the old things have passed away; behold, things have been made new," and [with that saying] in the Apocalypse: "And he that sat upon the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.'"”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.